Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain

by Sarah E Stoller

The first historical examination of working parenthood in the late twentieth century-and how the concepts of "family-friendly" work culture and "work-life balance" came to be. Since the 1980s, families across the developed West have lived through a revolution on a scale unprecedented since industrialization. With more mothers than ever before in paid work and the rise of the middle-class, dual-income household, we have entered a new era in the history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262546108
• ISBN13: 9780262546102
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"